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Revit TotD – 3.17.09 | Visibility Control with Yes/No Parameters
Another TotD courtesy of the RevitCity chatroom. This one is something I hear asked a lot almost anywhere I go. It delves into the family editor, which if the sound of that scares you, it’s just how us reviteers say “Open a family file (.rfa) with revit.” The goal of this tip is to show […]
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Revit TotD – 3.16.09 | Visibility Control, Filters and You!
This one come courtesy of Steel2Steel on RevitCity.com chat room.¬† It relates to his post here.¬† He was wanting to make his revit model look like a CAD drawing.¬† This blunder aside, I decided this wul dbe a nice little tip for my TotD readers.¬† Enjoy! Filters are your friend.¬† When it comes to Visibility […]
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Revit TotD – 3.14.09 (Render Exposure)
Yeah, so my tip of the day turned into a tip of the week.¬† So sue me for false advertising (please don’t, I have enough problems as it is and very little for you to win in an actual lawsuit).¬† It just so happened that I decided to start tip of the day, 2 days […]
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Revit TotD – 3.4.09 | Wall Multi Tip
While watching Will Harris’ Rockstar Hour today, I recalled how many people I’ve come across that did not know how walls worked in Revit.¬† While the TotD is not designed to be a full blown lesson, I have prepared a couple tips for placing walls. 1) Making a box of walls in a clockwise motion […]
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Revit tip of the Day (TotD) – 03.03.09
Revit TotD – Material Physical Properties. This issue was brought to my attention by a fellow RevitCity.com chatter.¬† He noted that when trying to change the properties on the physical properties tab of a material, everything goes back to default when you try to save the parameter subset.¬† After playing with it a bit, I […]
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Double Standards
I’ve run across a lot of nasty and usually false remarks about the abilities and downfalls of Revit and those of us that use Revit. Usually these remarks are made by AutoCAD diehards that can’t, or don’t want to, understand how to use Revit. What gets me is how they hold such a high level […]
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Bòrked Wall Profiles
I have noticed in a lot of projects I end up cleaning, that people tend to misuse wall profiles. What I end up running across most commonly is a wall that may have needed to be profiled at one point, but is no longer profiled, or a wall that has had the profile sketch moved […]
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Linked Model Multitasker
Ever found yourself working on a model with models linked in and you need to make some modifications to the linked model? You go to open the linked model and you get that annoying message that tells you the model is open already and will be unloaded from the other model if you continue. This […]
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Revit Videos.. enjoy!
I’m keeping a repository of all the help videos I make for the kind folks in the RevitCity.com chatroom. You can find them at: http://cre8iveThings.com/revit/video/ Enjoy!